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The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing — 77 episodes
What it’s like entering the spotlight after a career of ghostwriting
How far must we go to find our way home?
What made The Tragically Hip Canada’s band?
How to avoid getting locked in an echo chamber
The author behind Lucky reveals how she helped cast Anya Taylor-Joy
Why storytellers come alive when food is on the table
What is the hardest part of translating a beloved novel?
Why Ernest Hemingway had a problem with Toronto
How an accidental police officer stumbled into a career as a mystery author
Spilling secrets and small-town adultery in The Shampoo Effect
Kid approved books they will actually want to read this Summer
What is the greatest Canadian novel of all time?
Mystery solved: your summer reading list
The book that inspired Carley Fortune's writing career
The hidden connection between basketball and book nerds
Why Ann Patchett thinks the secret to success might be lowering people's expectations
Get ready for the World Cup with these essential soccer books
After Heated Rivalry, what’s next for romance readers?
The Montréal bookstore doing it like no other: Meet Joie de Livres
The books that made David Chilton The Wealthy Barber
Heated Rivalry’s Nadine Bhabha’s It Girl book club
The books that made Andrew Phung fall in love with storytelling
How being a 'sickly child' made Wayne Johnston a better writer
How reading became the hottest fashion trend of 2026
Her uncles for worked for MI6, now she writes spy novels
How Elsie Silver became one of the biggest names in romance
Exploring the fear that turned women into “witches”
Reflecting on a year of fear with Stephen King
How this independent bookstore owner stocks their shelves
Can reading be the first step to making real change?
Dystopian apartment hunting and searching for a place to call home
Travelling to the birthplace of Interview with the Vampire
A reality show where contestants win a trip ... to Mars?
What made Judy Blume’s books so popular? Reflecting on her illustrious career and new biography
Does the Project Hail Mary adaptation do the novel justice?
How Amanda Brugel manifested her role in The Handmaid’s Tale
The youngest Canada Reads contestant is now a Disney star: Here’s what she’s reading now
How iconic musician Tegan Quin plans to tackle Canada Reads
A look inside Canada’s prison book clubs
The quiet terror of Foe: why Actor Josh Dela Cruz is bringing it to Canada Reads
This writer's mystery illness defied diagnosis for months - here's what she learned from the uncertainty
Why Elle-Maija Tailfeathers says A Minor Chorus is the story Canada needs to hear right now
Inside the Toronto Sceptres’ team book club
Why Steve Dangle says this novel picked him for Canada Reads
What do fans of the novel Wuthering Heights make of the new adaptation?
How Canada Reads is unleashing Morgann Book’s inner competitor
This Amazing Race winner’s latest challenge? Reading 50 books in a year
Has hustle culture been lying to you?
Are book bans actually effective in a digital age?
Mychal the Librarian on his journey to internet stardom
Why the internet loves this family owned bookstore
Why fantasy novels offer much more than escapism
What makes older protagonists so compelling?
Get to know CBC’s Winter Olympics host
Celina ‘Spooky Boo’ Myers on writing the next great vampire novel
Mother-daughter bonding? How about writing a novel together
What Libby Ward learned by being extremely honest on social media
Canadian fiddle legend Natalie MacMaster shares her life in books
Is it a red flag if your boyfriend has read Anna Karenina?
Why Mark Critch is willing to fight for Canada
The 2025 Giller Prize finalists in conversation
Watching Heated Rivalry? Here’s what the author wants you to know
Getting to know Danger Eagle, the stunt performing penguin
Why this Ginny and Georgia star loves reading
Need a kid’s book for the holidays? Our panel has suggestions for all ages
Are literary prizes a scam?
How Tolstoy and Dostoevsky shaped Canadian rapper Shad
Flirting Lessons with Mirian Njoh
Who is the wimpy kid behind Jeff Kinney’s iconic series?
What books drew Brendan Fraser to storytelling?
Taking a tour of Newfoundland with Alan Doyle
Is the Canadian Booker winner worth reading?
What might surprise you about Margaret Atwood’s new memoir
Is food the closest thing to teleportation?
Why Anne of Green Gables is a superstar in Japan
Who’s to blame when a self-driving car ends up in flames? Our book club discusses
Jillian Harris on life after The Bachelor and writing her first children's book